This week, Ian talks with cartoonist Mattie Lubchansky about her new book, Simplicity, out July 29 from Pantheon Graphic Library. The conversation touches on Mattie’s work as Associate Editor for The Nib, her history with comics, and her ambitions beyond the printed page, but mostly focuses on the role of art in organizing and living our politics amid all the compromises required of life in the Real World.

• Instagram: @mattielubchansky
• x/twitter: @Lubchansky
• website: https://mattielubchansky.com
• tour: mattielubchansky.com/tour
• bluesky: @mattielubchansky.com
• podcast website: https://nogodsnomayors.com
• podcast bluesky: @nogodsnomayors.com

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• Take The ‘A’ Train by Duke Ellington from The Duke - The Essential Collection (1927-1962)

This week, we’re sharing this a chat with my friend, Dani Burlson on her recent book, Red Flag Warning: Mutual Aid and Survival in California’s Fire Country! We speak about fire ecology, housing pressures and mutual aid in the wake of natural (and human caused) disaster. Check the show notes for links to a few projects mentioned. You can find more of Dani’s writings at DaniBurlison.com/, books listed here, and more by Caw at CawShinyThings.com

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Northern CA projects mentioned:

• Undocufund
• North Bay Jobs With Justice
• North Bay Organizing Project
• North Bay Rapid Response
• Legal Aid of Sonoma County
• Forestry and Fire Recruitment program

Southern CA projects mentioned:

• Pasadena Community Job Center
• Los Angeles Mask Bloc

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Be Yourself by Air Power from Be Yourself 12"

This week, we’re sharing a recent interview with Kennedy Block and Josh MacPhee, editors of Strike While The Needle Is Hot: A Discography of Workers Revolt from Common Notions. We speak about audio strike records, their role, what they tell us about the struggles they cover or were produced to amplify, and a bit about where music and popular resistance stand today.

Until the end of the month, the book is available from CommonNotions.org with a 15% discount if you check out using the code: strike15 .

Josh can be reached on instagram via @jmacphee or via email at josh@justseeds.org

They’re also both involved with Interference Archive (which produced audio of this collection of Stop Cop City communiques for their podcast, Audio Interference), and Josh is a co-founder of JustSeeds.Org, produces Signal Journal (he was interviewed by Ian for the show on the topic)

Free Jack, Free The Airwaves zine can be found here

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• De Bons Travailleurs [start and end]

• Sciopero Interno by Fausto Amodei from Sciopero Interno, 1968, Italy [ 00:17:04 ]
• More Percent by Kirk Thorne from Songs from the NCU Strike, 1987, UK [ 00:36:11 ]
• A Year and a Bit by The Hindle Strikers with TBE from Part of the Union!, 1984 , UK[ 00:58:04 ]
• Viva La Huelga! by Polibio Mayorga from La Huelga, 1982, Ecuador [ 01:18:12 ]

This week on the podcast, we’re featuring three segments. First up, A member of DFW Support Committee, then organizers of the A Better World Bookfair in Waynesboro, VA and finally, organizers working to save the UNCA woods

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First up, you’ll hear a member of the DFW Support Committee supporting the defendants arrested on and around July 4th in relation to a solidarity noise demonstration outside the Prairieland ICE Detention Facility in Alvarado, Texas, in which a local police officer was injured. We speak about the case, the expanding web of repression against leftists in the area, what’s at stake in the case and how to support the 11 defendants.

You can reach them at dfwsupportcommittee@hacari.com and you can donate at https://www.givesendgo.com/supportdfwprotestors and here's a zine of info put out thus far by DFW Support Committee [00:01:40 – 00:35:19]

MAILING INSTRUCTIONS

Guidelines for writing (important!)
All mail is monitored by state and federal law enforcement. Be extremely mindful of what you are writing. Do not under any circumstance discuss the facts of the case, and do not include overtly political commentary. Consider writing about fun things you've done, telling stories, or sending poetry!
All addresses must be formatted as follows and should include a return address if possible.
Full name
Johnson County Detention Center 1800 Ridgemar Drive
Cleburne, TX 76031

NAMES AND BOOKING NUMBERS

• Savanna Batten 202502020
• Ines Soto 202502008
• Elizabeth Soto 202502014
• Seth Sikes 202502010
• Maricela Rueda 202502018
• Meagan Morris 202502011
• Joy Gibson 202502016
• Nathan Baumann 202502009
• Autumn Hill 202502023
• Zachary Evetts 202502013
• Daniel Sanchez Estrada 202502039

Next, you’ll hear Beet and Mad Dog, two anarchists organizing the upcoming A Better World Bookfair in Waynesboro, VA on Saturday, July 26th. We talk about the bookfair and taking space in rural locales as leftists and strengthening our bonds amidst the rise of the right under Trump 2.0. [00:35:56 – 01:02:11]

• Website/RSVP form: https://linktr.ee/shenandoahliberation
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/shenliberation
• Email inquiries to: abetterworldbookfair@protonmail.com

Then, you’ll hear Callie and Heather of Friends of the Woods talking about their campaign to save the UNCA woods, 45 acres in Asheville’s Five Points neighborhood from destruction by the university in a scheme to build a 5,000 seat soccer stadium, market rate housing and retail spaces. You can learn more at www.SaveUNCAWoods.org. [ 01:02:58 – 01:42:44 ]

Finally, Sean Swain speaks about the ODRC’s war on art… his art… [ 01:42:44 – 01:51:10 ]

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• Mercy, Mercy, Mercy by Cannonball Adderly from The Best of Cannonball Adderly The Capitol Years

This week, we’re sharing an interview with Heatscore and Nuke of sub.Media about their new documentary series, InterRebellium. The first episode, entitled El Estallido Social about the social uprising that flared up in 2019 in lands controlled by the state of Chile featuring anarchist and Mapuche voices on the conditions in which the uprising developed, experiences of it and its aftermath. You can view the film for free at sub.Media/InterRebellium alongside materials for discussion. We also speak about the role of film and media production in radical organizing and critique and upcoming episodes of the series.

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Another recent documentary about the Estallido Social mentioned, Fell In Love With Fire

Sean Swain’s video deposition: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhbAEYUUeiQ

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Despacito (Remix) by Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee (feat. Justin Bieber)

This week, we’re sharing an interview with Talia Lavin, author of Culture Warlords: My Journey into the Dark Web of White Supremacy. In this chat, we speak about her more recent book, Wild Faith: How the Christian Right is Taking Over America. There’s a lot in the book, most of it pretty disturbing (especially, I’m sure, for anyone who is ex-vangelical) and there is discussion of hateful ideology and child abuse and corporal punishment, though not in lurid detail, so listener discretion is advised. We hope to cover related topics in the future.

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• Newsletter: https://buttondown.com/theswordandthesandwich
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/taliainteralia/
• Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/swordsjew.bsky.social

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• Voice Of God Is Government by Bad Religion from How Could Hell Be Any Worse

This week on the show we feature an interview with two anarchists activists in southern California about the recent resistance to Federal-led immigration raids in Los Angeles and the wider region. Both guests speak about their experiences working in rapid response structures to immigration raids, to anti-homeless sweeps and other community needs over the years and how they’ve changed as conditions and technologies have changed. We talk about inviting and engaging new activists and some strategies that showed success.

Some great writings from the streets can be found at Ediciones Ineditas: https://ineditas.noblogs.org/post/2025/06/18/fuck-i-c-e-city-wide-los-angeles-goes-up/

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• Bella Ciao by La Plebe from Brazo En Brazo